Web Hosting Industry in 2005

A dream of “big things” can be seen on a concrete platform only. Interconnection of Web Sites, that in the last one decade became appropriate for e-commerce, communications, special software etc. Now, that can be said as the first era of the Web Hosting Industry. However, the second era of Web Hosting was an applicable era consisting of new online platforms, with the traffic further shifted.

Within a small nick of time things like commerce, content and communications found their home on the Web. The shopping cart became the core of the online commerce, but in the current period of time a number of small traders (and some large ones) are selling their wares through the mediums like Amazon, Yahoo! or eBay etc. besides providing the transaction and the catalog technologies, they also bring the life giving blood of commerce: the customers. On the hosted stores from Amazon, Yahoo! or eBay, instantaneous access to a very huge number of customers from every part of the world is possible.

One can take the application-service-provider business model as the live example of several these new homes that were formerly hosted on one’s own server.

Everything is outscored, even the task of search build on several websites. There is existence of only few larger sites that requires implementing their own search, while others prefer Google.

One can say that, email is also an outscored function, like for example who does not employ Google’s Gmail or Yahoo!’s Mail, now their accounts are made up for free and one can have a whole gb for storage. User can imagine how many Web Hosting offers are provided to him/her with one GB per user, even for a fee. In a condition where the applications are moving out of the Web hosting data center, what can a Web host do?

What can a host offer to the customers?

Definitely, imminent can be the answer: “value migrates to adjacent layers” for this particular condition that value migrates to services. The Web Hosting vendors are constructing muscular businesses to survive though time.

Due to constant flexible nature of the Internet, the services that embrace, rather then compete with, the migration of services away from the Web Hosting data center is the key aspect. Clients that are helped to wander on gmail, or several big companies for e.g. Amazon, eBay or Yahoo!, will symbolize the crucial walk towards a progressive Web host.

However, the process of the migration is not a simple task, so an ideal host must help his/her clients by offering them free toolkits and libraries for the purpose to assist them in this overall migration process.

Thus through this one can see a glittering future of The Web Hosting Industry.

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